Future Development of Waste Management in China According to the 13th Five-Year Plan© TK Verlag - Fachverlag fĂĽr Kreislaufwirtschaft (9/2016)
Municipal solid waste (MSW) known as trash or garbage consists of food waste, paper, cardboard, plastics, PET, glass, textiles, metals, wood and leather, nappies, slug, ash, etc. are arising from human and animal activities. The rapid development and urbanization of China have resulted in an increasing volume of MSW. So the problem of MSW management has become a major social problem, but one the other hand, because of their intrinsic properties, MSW are often reusable and may be considered a resource for energy recovery. The delivering quantity of household waste averages 179 million tons in China, and the amount of untreated MSW over the years has reached 7 billion tons.
Sensor based sorting: A key technology for sustainable waste management© Wasteconsult International (6/2010)
Waste is a heterogeneous mixture of materials often containing reusable or recyclable materials. In accordance with the hierarchy of the EU requirements “Prevention - Preparing for reuse – Recycling - Other Recovery – Disposal of Waste”, waste processing and recycling additionally fulfills the duty to protect the environment and to preserve primary resources. In order to meet the demands of increasing recycling rates and the quality of recycled waste materials sensor based sorting is playing an important and increasing role in waste processing techniques.
Progress in Geochemical Hazardous Waste Detection© Lehrstuhl fĂĽr Abfallverwertungstechnik und Abfallwirtschaft der Montanuniversität Leoben (9/2004)
The "TSEEP" technology described in this article was designed to detect and map underground pollution cost effectively and rapidly.
Two-step biological treatment of coke oven wastewater© DIV Deutscher Industrieverlag GmbH (8/2004)
Due to high concentrations of pollutants, some of them inhibitory or toxic, coke oven effluents belong to the most delicate industrial wastewaters. Application of conventional biological treatment technology requires low-loaded, i. e. large volume bioreactors.
The UK Emissions Trading Scheme: From a prototype to a phase-out model ?© Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (3/2004)
The UK Emissions Trading Scheme, launched in spring 2002 as the world’s first economy-wide trading system for greenhouse gases, was designed to establish the UK’s role as a world leader in the field of emissions trading, even before similar trading systems were put in place on an European or international scale.
TOFD: A new weld inspection method for pipeline engineering© Vulkan-Verlag GmbH (3/2004)
TOFD (Time of Flight Diffraction) is an ultrasonic inspection method in which not only, as is customary, the reflected signals are recorded and evaluated, but instead also the diffraction signals radiated from fault boundaries.